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post Jan 24 2012, 11:24 PM
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Hey Stu, we got spotted on Universe Today. smile.gif

Happy anniversary Opportunity!! biggrin.gif
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post Jan 25 2012, 02:50 PM
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Nice one! smile.gif

But 8 years... still really having a hard time believing it's that long... blink.gif


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post Jan 27 2012, 03:32 AM
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Eight years. Marvelous!

Sleep well Spirit.

Rest easy Opportunity.

We love you.

Humany Wumany

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post Jan 27 2012, 04:37 AM
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Opportuniverse Today smile.gif
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post Jan 27 2012, 11:30 PM
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I finally downloaded the full-res version, great work photoshop-ing the figure eight, sure fooled me!
Poem typo alert: "..in all their restored gory.." (not in the poster, just the article)
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post Feb 9 2012, 10:51 AM
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For those who haven't seen it yet, a new HiRISE image has just ben released showing Spirit's Lander off to the side of Bonneville Crater...

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_025815_1655

(Was that a HiWISH of yours Doug?)

Here's what the lander looked like on 29 Jan...

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Wouldn't it have been great if we'd had a HiRISE portrait of the lander and rover just after landing? It might have looked something like this... (I've tried to get the scale right by cloning Spirit from the same image)...

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(Note: taken from: http://roadtoendeavour.wordpress.com/2012/...ories-of-spirit )


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post Feb 9 2012, 03:04 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Feb 9 2012, 02:51 AM) *
(Was that a HiWISH of yours Doug?)


Yup. They didn't QUITE get it right - they were about 140 meters east of what I was asking for....as they didn't quite get the backshell and parachute in color as well.

I have the same request submitted for Meridiani, Color over Eagle Crater.
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post Feb 9 2012, 06:26 PM
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Here's an attempt to tweak the color to look similar to what an overhead view might look like:

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post Feb 13 2012, 12:27 PM
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Beautiful colours, ugordan, as ever... smile.gif

The new HiRISE image inspired a new astropoem, which is here if anyone wants to have a look...

http://astropoetry.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/freeing-spirit


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post Feb 13 2012, 01:20 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 9 2012, 07:26 PM) *
Here's an attempt to tweak the color to look similar to what an overhead view might look like

And here is color interpretation from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/mult...a/pia15038.html
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post Feb 13 2012, 03:52 PM
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QUOTE (pospa @ Feb 13 2012, 05:20 AM) *
And here is color interpretation from NASA...


Natural or not, those earthy brown tones from the NASA rendering are more pleasing to my eye than the orange-red versions.
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post Feb 13 2012, 04:07 PM
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QUOTE (pospa @ Feb 13 2012, 02:20 PM) *
And here is color interpretation from NASA

That's actually the source image I used.


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post Feb 13 2012, 06:26 PM
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I'm not an expert at all in optics, but I suppose that even if the ambient light is very red, in low light levels the black and white vision (rods) is more efficient that the color vision (cones). So, when displaying an image with normal Earth brighness levels, lower saturation may preserve better the original visual experience.

Here's my version:

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In GIMP:
1. Go to Balance color and slide the tree balances +10 towards red and -10 towards yellow.
2. In Hue and saturation, drop saturation -40.
3. In Brightness and contrast, +20 brightness and +30 contrast.
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post Feb 13 2012, 10:39 PM
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Or, in other words - we're guessing and it's just an artistic judgement call.
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post Feb 14 2012, 12:14 AM
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QUOTE (Fran Ontanaya @ Feb 13 2012, 07:26 PM) *
I'm not an expert at all in optics, but I suppose that even if the ambient light is very red, in low light levels the black and white vision (rods) is more efficient that the color vision (cones). So, when displaying an image with normal Earth brighness levels, lower saturation may preserve better the original visual experience .

This is it... tested and approved on VL1 and VL2 images at JPL-IPL in 1981-1982 wink.gif
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